Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Now particularly to you (Honoured and Worthy) that are Members of the Honourable House of Commons, as you are single persons, search your selves, consider your ways; Is there any thing in your hands to be cleansed? You are to purge the corrupt leaven out of your own houses, your selves, your families, your places of office and trust are the proper sphere of your activity; you are for Ecclesiastical reformation, and the sweeping out of corruptions out of the house of God: but are you as intent upon personal reformation of your own ways? do your own houses lie clean? have you real principles of godliness in your own hearts? or are you carried merely by the Parliamentary genius or stream, by a rapt motion? In one word: are you not afraid of holiness? ...
For more, see Richard Vines on the personal reformation of the Members of Parliament.
For more, see Richard Vines on the personal reformation of the Members of Parliament.
